Laptop specs for LR/PP editing

[omens]

My veteran 10-year-old gaming laptop is dying. It's the GPU. No longer available as a part.

Time for a new laptop. Laptop because because space is at a premium and I don't have the room for a full desktop PC with triple monitor set up and gaming chair that I've always wanted. These days, I don't have time for gaming either, sadly.

Given that the most work I do on my laptop is processing photos in Lightroom 6 (yes, before the current subscription BS), and I would like to learn editing videos in Premiere Pro, what should I aim for in specifications? Currently, the only thing I want is 17" widescreen because that's what I'm used to. I can't imagine ever going smaller.

 

[gman]

I'm not sure about Premiere Pro but DaVinci Resolve certainly uses my GPU a fair bit and with you looking at a large 17" screen I would probably make sure you get a decent GPU in the laptop for starters.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

processing photos in Lightroom 6 (yes, before the current subscription BS), and I would like to learn editing videos in Premiere Pro

There is so much irony in this. £8 pm for LR+PS is a no no but £50 pm is fine for PP. OK. Personally thats another vote for Davinci and I'm a LR+PS user.

If video is the goal, perhaps best to look at a laptop with min RTX 3060 (which is about half the spec of proper desktop 3060...) or one of the to be released apples

You will not probably want eGPU, because if you did you may as well get the desktop right away.

 

[nandbytes]

There is so much irony in this. £8 pm for LR+PS is a no no but £50 pm is fine for PP. OK.

Exactly what I thought.
But for £50pm he'd also get LR+PS included.
If you know a student/teacher you can get all of it for like £17 (which I was tempted with)

 

[omens]

There is so much irony in this. £8 pm for LR+PS is a no no but £50 pm is fine for PP. OK. Personally thats another vote for Davinci and I'm a LR+PS user.

I have Premiere Pro, Lightroom and Photoshop from just before they went to subscription services.

If video is the goal, perhaps best to look at a laptop with min RTX 3060 (which is about half the spec of proper desktop 3060...) or one of the to be released apples

Yeah I was looking at gaming laptops that have a dedicated GPU.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

I have Premiere Pro, Lightroom and Photoshop from just before they went to subscription services

Will that have proper 4k support and h265, etc? I suspect the latest davinci free will be quite a lot better choice.

 

[hashcake]

Intel i7 or AMD Ryzen CPU, 16gb RAM minimum, 32gb if you can afford it, 1 x NVME for the OS and a 2.5 SSD for files etc plus a seperate graphics card to avoid using system RAM for graphics.
Not sure if Dell do a 17" version but the G3 laptop series is well worth a look.

 

[omens]

Any particular type of screen I should go for or avoid?

 

[ancient_mariner]

Any particular type of screen I should go for or avoid?

Avoid TN, choose IPS. TN is strongly affected by viewing angle, IPS much less so. Try to get thewidest colour gamut you can (i.e. 95%+ sRGB)

 

[ancient_mariner]

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